The significance which the Caucasus has now acquired imposes upon you, and upon all workers in food supply and transport in the Caucasus, exceptional responsibility. Once again I confirm the necessity of daily dispatch to the center of 200 cars. Report daily by direct wire personally to me and to the People's Commissariat of Food, in addition to the information given [on] actual loading: first, the availability of grain delivered, separately [to] stations, [second] separately—[to] railway warehouses, third, cart transport [to] stations within twenty-four hours. [107]
Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.
Omsk. Sibprodkom. To Kaganovich

9. Copy of order.[**]
[16 February 1921]

In view of the food situation in the republic having become critically acute, I order, as a matter of combat directive, with the utmost exertion of all forces, to increase the loading and dispatch of grain to the center to the maximum. Daily by direct wire report personally to me and to the People's Commissariat of Food: first, the availability at railway stations; second, the quantity of grain delivered to stations within twenty-four hours; third, the loading of grain within twenty-four hours, separately—to the center, separately—local; fourth, if there was underloading—the reasons for the same. [105]
Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.

¹ Markov, S. D.—Chief of the North Caucasus Railway District.
¹ Kaganovich, L. K.—Representative of the People's Commissariat of Food.